Advertisements and the timing of the display thereof on tickers of mobile devices are selected based on activity of the mobile devices and bids made by advertisers. Advertisers define conditions of the mobile devices that are to trigger the display of particular advertisements. The advertisers can a ...

Managing voice messages across multiple voicemail systems. A server acts as a gateway and interacts with multiple voicemail systems and with multiple user devices. The server can retrieve voice messages from one voicemail system and transmit the retrieved voice messages to another separate voicemail ...

Systems and methods for defining and using a data collection profile in connection with a telecommunications network that includes multiple devices. Initially, a query is defined that concerns one or more aspects of the communications network. The query is then used as a basis for building a data co ...

An interactive ticker (401) on a device (101) that enables content to be provided to a user and that enables a user to interact with the content in the ticker (401). Tickers (401) are populated with content that may be selected using the location and/or a context of the devices. The content can be c ...

A system for updating the location of elements in a computer display, upon a change in the size and/or configuration of the display, maintains user preferences regarding the appearance of elements. As a first step, user designated locations for individual elements, such as icons, are stored in a dat ...

An optimal compressor/decompressor (codec) module is intelligently selected for use when transmitting audio from a mobile communication device to a recipient. The codec can be selected based on the type of the audio data or the characteristics of the recipient. The codec can also be selected based o ...

A unified messaging interface and method that enables mobile communication device users to initiate the creation messages for a recipient without being required to explicitly specify the type of message to be created. The mobile communication device supports multiple message types, such as voice, te ...

Tickers on communications devices are navigated using a navigation mechanism associated with the communications devices. The navigation mechanisms can permit a user to navigate through content in a ticker or to configure presentation attributes of the ticker. Alternately, the navigation mechanisms c ...

Systems and methods for discovering features of a communication device. The features of a communications device are tracked or monitored. Features that are unused or undiscovered are identified. The undiscovered features are then included as ticker items in an interactive ticker. When a ticker item ...

Systems and methods for communication between local wireless networks and mobile devices and more particularly, to sending presence-based content to mobile devices over local wireless network access points. The method includes receiving notification that the mobile device has established a wireless ...